Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sir John Kothalawala Maha Vidyalaya (school)


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The result was delete. KTC (talk) 02:04, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Sir John Kothalawala Maha Vidyalaya (school)

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 * Note: The article has now been moved to Sir John Kothalawala Maha Vidyalaya - Piliyandala. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:23, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: The article has been moved again to Sir John Kothalawala Maha Vidyalaya, Piliyandala. • Gene93k (talk) 17:57, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Subject is a primary school that, as far as I can tell from the information given in the article, covers grades 1 through 6. As such, it does not satisfy the longstanding criteria that only secondary schools are deemed to be inherently notable. Nothing that would indicate any notability for this primary school. No school district article to redirect this to. The best option here would be to simply delete. Safiel (talk) 18:40, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sri Lanka-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:45, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:45, 31 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete - Not notable. And reasons per nom --allthefoxes (Talk) 04:48, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - per guidelines and outcomes. Not to mention PROMO. John from Idegon (talk) 19:08, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - Not notable. And reasons per nom. Not finding any WP:RS to support claim of WP:GNG or WP:SIGCOV.  Viewing the article in the most favorable light, this would be a case of WP:Too soon.  7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 14:57, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * What, at 35 years old?! -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:41, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - fails WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES. VMS Mosaic (talk) 12:00, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep. Actually appears to be a secondary school, so WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES most certainly doesn't suggest it should be deleted. Nothing in the article says it's a primary school (indeed, the infobox says it educates grades 1-13) and a Google search, while not turning up many references, does turn up references to it having a senior cricket team. This pretty much invalidates the whole nomination on that basis. Yes, it's a poor article, but the topic appears to be notable per our usual consensus that all secondary schools are notable. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:40, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment. This appears to be an (extremely poorly written) article about a secondary school. Since the article was nominated for deletion, they have brought their website online. Unfortunately, it matches the Wikipedia article almost verbatim. Yes, we usually keep secondary schools as states,  if  they can be verified, and that's a big problem here. I'm not seeing a great loss if this article is nuked. • Gene93k (talk) 20:32, 6 February 2016 (UTC)


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